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1442 King Alfonso V of Aragon becomes King of Naples
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- 1675 Evaristo Felice dall'Abaco, Italian cellist and composer, born in Verona, Republic of Venice (now Italy) (d. 1742)
- 1821 Cesare Dominiceti, Italian composer, born in Desenzano del Garda, Kingdom of Lombardy–Venetia, Austrian Empire (now Italy) (d. 1888)
- 1884 Amedeo Modigliani, Italian painter and sculptor (Reclining Nude), born in Livorno, Tuscany, Italy (d. 1920)
- 1927 Pavle Merku, Italian-Slovene composer and ethnomusicologist, born in Trieste (d. 2014)
- 1945 Leopoldo Mastelloni, Italian actor (Inferno), born in Naples, Kingdom of Italy
- 1973 Christian Vieri, Italian soccer striker (49 caps; Inter Milan), born in Bologna, Italy
- 1982 Antonio Cassano, Italian soccer forward (39 caps; Roma, Real Madrid, Sampdoria, Parma), born in Bari, Italy
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